Susan Rice

In the wake of North Korea's most dangerous nuclear test yet - one reportedly yielding enough destructive power to eliminate a city - it is worth setting aside all the blustering presidential tweets for a moment and considering what an actual strategy on North Korea would look like.

The first step would be to stop searching for silver bullets. That means forgetting about grand diplomatic bargains with Pyongyang or Beijing. Since 1992, North Korea has established a 100 percent record for cheating on freezes, frameworks, and agreements of all kinds. We are past the tired cliché that Pyongyang must "make a choice" between nuclear weapons and acceptance in the...

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